Numerous and Belligerent

So for the past few days I have been working at a temp job for a directory company in Houston. My job so far has comprised of calling cousin diddling hicks from backwoods Oklahoma.

Some gems I heard over the phone:

When I asked for their company's website:

"The Internet is the realm of gays and democrats!" (And they didn't hang up, they said this as if it was a normal part of a conversation.)

"What's a website?" (I explained it as a place where you list your companies information with pictures on a vast network on many computers, and when that failed I simply said: It's like a lot of books, but on a TV) to which they respond "Oh, (fake)@aol.com!"

This was what the voicemail of the owner/president of a oil production company said:

Automated voice: You have reached the voice mail of
Extremely gravely human voice: Smokey
Automated voice: is not available...

I also got numerous people telling me they don't like to advertise their website, or that they did not want to advertise period. It's been a fun week that's going to be followed by another fun week. I am just glad I am calling people from Texas now, even people from smaller places like Midland and Odessa Texas have small business people who know what a website is and usually have one! I am wondering if the people from Oklahoma are picking up my faint South Texas accent (according to my Geography text it's apparently what remains of the Southern Plantation English dialect that's been eroded away by Northerners who have moved to Southern cities) and just playing off the regional animosity. But in all fairness I did talk to some people from Oklahoma City who were living with me in the 21st century, so there seems to be some hope for this seemingly backwards place.


Couldn't find an embed code, so just watch it here.

Videos

A couple videos for today one from the Colbert Report:



And one for a movie I really am considering dressing up for, this kind of brings a tear of happiness to my eye.



And I hope to God that J.J. Abrams does not screw it up.

The Supreme Court

So the Supreme Court just recently struck down the Washington D.C. total hand gun ban. The right to bear arms is not what I am vexed about, I think that responsible people can be trusted to have weapons, just not armor piercing bullets, grenade launchers, and the like. What really "grinds my gears" is this quote from Scalia's opinion:

The Second Amendment provides: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” In interpreting this text, we are guided by the principle that “[t]he Constitution was written to be understood by the voters; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary as distinguished from technical meaning.”

It seems that Justice Scalia is a strict constructionist only when it suits him, I mean what the hell is original intent?

And now back to our original broadcast

So it’s been a while since I did a post relating to politics and since this blog is for a grade in a Political Science class my inner gut tells me that doing a politics post is a good idea. So today I am covering the complete alienation of the state of Florida.

Florida has often been referred to as the wang of America, and the treatment given to it by the two major campaigns must mean that our country has one hell of a venereal disease (I think its Bond 17) or desperately wants a sex change.

The first abuse that I am going to broach deals with the Democratic Party (gasp! I know going against my own party, what the hell!, I thought I was completely partisan.) So a while back the Democratic Party decided to punish the voters of Michigan and Florida by stripping them of all their delegates to the Democratic National Convention because their state legislators moved their primary forward in direct violation of the DNC rules. Now this also moved the Republican primary forward too in violation of the RNC rules, but the Republicans decided to only remove half of the delegates, which is still retarded but less so than the Democrats IN THIS ONE INSTANCE. So this gave the Republicans plenty of fodder in the fall for the election in two very critical swing states with an ad that will probably say "the Democrat Party disenfranchamized you."

Well a recent development in the McCain campaign has at least evened the floor for the Democrats in Florida: offshore drilling. Now offshore drilling has long been opposed by both parties in Florida (see this story by NPR) but when George Bush came out with support for offshore drilling, McCain came out for it after opposition to it, and the Governor of Florida Charlie Crist came out for it after opposition to it, apparently trying to go after the bucket of piss that is the Vice Presidential Office. So now this should help Obama with a potential argument over how he listens to the people of Florida instead of simply toeing the party line and how McCain is simply bringing in the third Bush term. It also helps that this happened a few months after the whole disenfranchisement thingy since Americans (myself included) don't like to remember things for that long, because we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

And for your consideration:

I Don't Understand

Maybe Duran Duran was just thinking that the success from covering White Lines by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five made this atrocity justifiable. I just can't see how this is real.

Here they are playing it live:



And here is a better quality version for those who like multiple auditory deaths:



But to make you feel better I present you with a challenge watch this video and see how long you can last before you must turn it off or just feel like a part of you has died forever. I make it to 38 seconds and I am curious to see how long you, the reader, lasts. (And the person coming in at 50ish seconds isn't a man according to Wikipedia!)



And one good thing today, here is one of my favorite characters with his very own blog!

For Poli Sci

The political science department at my university has been looking for a fight song for our prestigious institution. I think that their search is now over:



Also this recruiting video best exemplifies the same institution:

New Signs

So I have found some new signs on the McCain site and some of them just don't make sense.









And this one seems to be going after the disaffected Hilary supporters.





I mean I get the last two, but the first one, what's up with that? With this I say goodnight: courage.